BIG BREAKFAST HELPS WEIGHT LOSS
BIG BREAKFAST HELPS WEIGHT LOSS
Check out this article in MedPage Today highlighting a recent study showing the benefit of consuming a higher proportion of daily food intake earlier in the day. “The body uses more than twice as much energy to digest breakfast than dinner, a finding that emphasizes the importance of breakfast for weight loss, scientists said.”
MedPage Today: Study: Big Breakfast Better for Weight Loss
“In 16 volunteers who spent 3 days in a lab under carefully monitored conditions, diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT) was 2.5 times higher in the morning after breakfast than in the evening after dinner, regardless of how large the meal was.”
“Furthermore, study participants who ate a low-calorie breakfast reported increased feelings of hunger and specifically cravings for sweets later in the day, compared with participants who ate a high-calorie breakfast.”
“Our data show that the time of day of food intake makes a difference in humans’ energy expenditure and metabolic responses to meals,” the team wrote online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. “These in-laboratory standardized experiments, which eliminated the possible influence of sleep disturbances and carbohydrate preloads, support the thesis that in terms of diet-induced thermogenesis, breakfast has a more efficient energetic value for our body than dinner.”
“The researchers reported that food-induced increases in blood glucose and insulin were higher after dinner compared with breakfast. For example, glucose concentrations were 17% higher after a low-calorie dinner compared with a low-calorie breakfast, and insulin concentrations were 40% higher after a high-calorie dinner compared with a high-calorie breakfast.”
Asked for her perspective, Lauri Wright, PhD, of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, who was not involved with the study, said the research provides new information about the first meal of the day: “We have long known that eating breakfast is important for health. Benefits include a healthier weight, keeping blood sugar steady, better concentration at school and work, and even heart health. This new study, though, shows that our body is ‘rev-ed’ up in the morning and has a better metabolic response to breakfast than other times of the day.”
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